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Hi, I am in the process of buying a small cottage in Rural Scotland. Drainage from the house is to an old brick septic tank which is within the garden. The cottage was built in 1850, at a guess the septic tank and associated system is at least 70 years old. The title deeds describe a...

I think you are implying upset the bottom course of slates when a poked a hole with a 5mm dowel. I did not. The most uneven part of the roof is at high points, where there is too much mortar. My question is how can he fix this?

...I've just noticed something else; When he has dobbed the mortar on he has made no attempt to keep/make the top of the wall straight, so the first course of slates is not straight and it looks a mess. What is the easist way for him to get under the bottom course of slates to resolve this.

Hello, Thanks for the responses. Bsaed on the feedback, I have just spent a couple of hours with a piece of dowel poking drainage holes through the mortar dam in between each of the lower slates.

Hello, I am having a roof re-slated. It is an old house; field stone wall with rubble infill, sarking board below slates. The roofer has dobbed mortar along the bottom of the roof on top of the roofing felt, he has then pressed the bottom course of slates into the mortar. This seems...